MY COPY OF PENNY DREAD TALES CAME IN THE MAIL. I pretty much had a heart attack and nearly tore the book apart in my eagerness to read it. After rereading my own story, "Iron Angel," and laughing at some things I should've changed in edits, and just trying to get over the fact that this was my writing in a legitimate book, I started in on the rest of it. I haven't gotten through all the stories yet, but the ones I have I've loved. (Once I'm through with them all I'll write more about them.)And then I went to Borders, finally found "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner after three months of trying to hunt down a copy, and devoured it in about five hours. It was amazing. Beautifully written, with funny, lovable characters and ones you want to give a good punch in the face. I'm horribly late in reading this one, but seeing as it was published before I was born, I'll forgive myself.
As an ending note, I've recently started reading up on Bordertown, another thing I'm late in coming to but was also begun before my entrance into this world. I haven't tracked down the old anthologies yet (I'm planning to hit up some used bookstores next weekend) but I've read through the free stories on the new website, here, and am planning on buying the new anthology as soon as I can. The world is sprawling and magical and I can't wait to read more about it.
